Consultant Psychiatrist Mental Health & Addictions

Leadership opportunity within the Acute Community Service

·         Salary is dependant on Experience: NZD$170,369. - $250,560. + CME’s and More!

·         Visa and MCNZ assistance

·         Generous Relocation Package to the successful Candidates

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora – Counties Manukau is one of the largest providers of primary, secondary and tertiary health care in Australasia.  We invest in growing our community and primary care services that integrate with secondary and tertiary care. We aim to ensure that the health system enables our communities to stay well, recover and live healthy lives – together.

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We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Team.  You will be motivated, enthusiastic, and a highly professional Doctor, who is ready to work as part of a dynamic team, delivering quality equity-focused mental health acute clinical care.

This service works collaboratively alongside both the Intake and Acute Assessment (I&AA) and Integrated Care Community Services. The I&AA and HBT services are co-located at our Kerrs Road site, allowing close collaboration and a seamless care pathway for our whaiora.  

The service delivers acute clinical treatment to service users either in their own home, or in a community facility, enabling the service users to receive treatment with minimum disruption to their lives and with the support and care of their whaanau.   

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate a genuine commitment to the people who we serve, within the diverse and culturally rich community of Counties Manukau.   Our candidate will demonstrate, excellent communication skills, be highly organised, and possess honesty, integrity and professionalism. You will need to have the ability to promote teamwork and navigate through the challenges of providing complex care to whaiora with complex presentations, by promoting a strong team culture and function, and a genuine focus on equitable health systems and outcomes. 

Supported by the leadership team, you will have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to strategic and service development. Working alongside the Service Manager, Acute & Hospital Services, the Clinical Head and members of the Senior Leadership Team, you will support implementation of service goals, and grow a workplace of excellence, by applying the latest evidence to inform the model of care.

Vocational registration with the Medical Council of NZ in the scope of Psychiatry and a current APC is essential at commencement of employment.

Please apply online at www.countieshealthjobs.com

For further information please contact:

Service Manager, Jeremy Stockton on 021526519 or Jeremy.stockton@middlemore.co.nz or Clinical Director, Dr Ian Soosay, on Ian.Soosay@middlemore.co.nz.

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Take the opportunity to come and be part of our Mental & Addictions Health Services workforce that is value driven, engaged and supported. 

Job Number: CMH202412894